HISTORY OF ART ESSAY
*HISTORY OF ART* Select one of the prompts below and please answer whichever the writer feels more comfortable and has better answers to. ONLY ANSWER TO ONE OF THEM PLEASE!! MAKE THE WHOLE ESSAY ABOUT JUST 1 PROMPT. 1.Leon Alberti wrote, “a man can do all things if he will” a phrase which embodies Humanism – the capacity to learn, develop and achieve. This phrase also underlines the notion of the “Renaissance Man”. Select an artist from the Renaissance (Italian or Northern / Early, High or Late / man or woman) and explain how he/she characterizes the definition of a “Renaissance man (person)”. Provide and discuss an artwork that demonstrates that demonstrates the artist′s abilities 2.Leonardo da Vinci′s portrait Mona Lisa has continued to captivate and mystify viewers over the centuries. Explain some of the mystery behind this portrait, as well as its innovative and artistic appeal. 3.Mannerism has been viewed as artificial style as opposed to naturalism of the High Renaissance. It may also be viewed more positively as a movement that stressed the inner, imaginative or strange, vision of the artist. Discuss this more positive interpretation in relation to the art of Branzino, Parmigianio or Pontormo (select one) 4.Donato Bramante’s Tempietto and Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda are structures that were inspired by classical architecture. What lessons did the architects learn from the classical builders? What elements of these buildings were changed to create something distinctly from the Renaissance? 5.Jan van Eyck’s Man in a Red Turban may be a self-portrait of the artist. One piece of evidence for this theory is that the artist included his personal motto on the frame. Written in Greek letters, the text reads “As I can [but not as I would]. What do you think this means? Why might a painter have selected this as his personal motto? *HISTORY OF ART* Select one of the prompts below and please answer whichever the writer feels more comfortable and has better answers to. ONLY ANSWER TO ONE OF THEM PLEASE!! MAKE THE WHOLE ESSAY ABOUT JUST 1 PROMPT. 1.Leon Alberti wrote, “a man can do all things if he will” a phrase which embodies Humanism – the capacity to learn, develop and achieve. This phrase also underlines the notion of the “Renaissance Man”. Select an artist from the Renaissance (Italian or Northern / Early, High or Late / man or woman) and explain how he/she characterizes the definition of a “Renaissance man (person)”. Provide and discuss an artwork that demonstrates that demonstrates the artist′s abilities 2.Leonardo da Vinci′s portrait Mona Lisa has continued to captivate and mystify viewers over the centuries. Explain some of the mystery behind this portrait, as well as its innovative and artistic appeal. 3.Mannerism has been viewed as artificial style as opposed to naturalism of the High Renaissance. It may also be viewed more positively as a movement that stressed the inner, imaginative or strange, vision of the artist. Discuss this more positive interpretation in relation to the art of Branzino, Parmigianio or Pontormo (select one) 4.Donato Bramante’s Tempietto and Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda are structures that were inspired by classical architecture. What lessons did the architects learn from the classical builders? What elements of these buildings were changed to create something distinctly from the Renaissance? 5.Jan van Eyck’s Man in a Red Turban may be a self-portrait of the artist. One piece of evidence for this theory is that the artist included his personal motto on the frame. Written in Greek letters, the text reads “As I can [but not as I would]. What do you think this means? Why might a painter have selected this as his personal motto?